Postgraduate is a kind of qualification certification of national education, which is generally carried out by ordinary universities with master's and doctoral degrees. You can also be called a graduate student after graduation, which means someone with a graduate degree.
In China, graduate students are divided into master students and doctoral students. According to different degrees, it can be divided into academic graduate students and professional graduate students. Academic graduate students generally refer to graduate students with academic degrees and established according to disciplines. They are oriented to academic research, emphasize theory and research, and mainly train university teachers and researchers in scientific research institutions.
Professional graduate students, at the same level as degree graduate students, are applied senior professionals with a solid theoretical foundation and meet the actual needs of specific industries or occupations.
The unified enrollment of graduate students in ordinary colleges and universities includes full-time graduate students and part-time graduate students, and enrollment is conducted through the unified enrollment examination for master's and doctoral students nationwide or by recommending an exemption examination.
Before 20 17, on-the-job graduate students refer to on-the-job graduate students, who are mainly enrolled through the 10 joint entrance examination and the equivalent academic qualifications. Traditional on-the-job graduate students have no postgraduate education but only a degree certificate; From 20 17, the traditional on-the-job postgraduate students will be abolished and part-time postgraduate students will be established on the basis of full-time postgraduate education.
Part-time graduate students and full-time graduate students took the unified national entrance examination for graduate students at the end of 65438+February, drew the same admission scores, implemented the same training graduation standards, and obtained graduation certificates and degree certificates of general higher education when they graduated.
They just have different learning forms, and their academic qualifications are all general higher education (unified recruitment qualifications). Their academic certificates and degree certificates have the same legal status and the same effect.